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bash script runs standalone but not with cron

I know you get this a lot, but i couldn't get this code to work in cron. even though it runs stand alone. i am trying to ssh to server, get last redmine backup file, encrypt it with gpg public key, copy it over to local backup computer, delete encrypted file and exit.

#!/bin/bash
ssh [email protected] 'cd /data/redmine/redmine/data/backups; file=$(ls -t | head -1); gpg --always-trust --encrypt --recipient 2E87B5C4E322C0AFCD1113EFCBB7C68 $file; enc_file=$(ls *.gpg); scp $enc_file [email protected]:/backups/redmineBackups/backups; rm $enc_file'

my crontab looks like this

* * * * * /scripts/redmineEncrpt.sh

trying to run it every minute for testing. cron runs it but never get the result.

would you please help me out figure out this? thank you

Solution

  • my issue is just a typo, filename was wrong. thanks to Barmer who helped me output cron log that let to fixing the problem

    thanks guys